It's been ten years since the football world was alternately delighted or shocked with the dawn raid orchestrated by the FBI on the luxury Baur au Lac Hotel in downtown Zurich, on some unsuspecting, sleeping members of the FIFA Congress.| Bonita Mersiades
FairSquare’s major October 2024 report Substitute: The Case for the External Reform of FIFA, has prompted a lengthy response from world football’s governing body. An email to FairSquare from FIFA’s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, sent on 31 October 2024, the day after the publication of Substitute, stated that the report “misunderstood and mischaracterised many […]| FairSquare
A major new report from FairSquare, published today, identifies serious structural flaws within FIFA, football’s global governing body, that have resulted in the organisation contributing to a wide range of social harms, not least very serious and systematic human rights abuses, and that preclude it from fulfilling one of its core stated objectives of developing […]| FairSquare
